All Biology
The new frontline
Added: 13 Feb 2020
Using big data analysis and knowledge networks is the new frontier in combating infectious disease …
A certain ratio
Added: 27 Jan 2020
Has CRISPR just given us the ability to change the sex ratio in mammals? Dermot Martin reports on n…
Getting into the lab, via the stomach
Added: 26 Jan 2020
Of all the incentives lab supply companies have in their arsenal – there is one guaranteed way they…
More for less
Added: 17 Jan 2020
From monitoring cow burps to novel herbicides, cutting-edge agricultural science not only aims to f…
An ode to imagination
Added: 15 Jan 2020
Frustrated by siloed science, Dr Jennifer Rohn bemoans the lack of cross-disciplinary imagination t…
Solidified dopamine
Added: 14 Jan 2020
This mesmerizing image was captured using polarized light, giving little droplets of solidified dop…
Can we afford to cure the incurable?
Added: 14 Jan 2020
Putting us on the very cusp of a medical revolution – gene therapy could cure the incurable. But as…
Molecular clues to long-term memory storage
Added: 14 Jan 2020
A new study could shed light on the molecular changes behind the memory storage process – specifica…
NHS must research more for patient safety
Added: 8 Jan 2020
A New report from The Academy of Medical Sciences suggests that patient care is in jeopardy because…
How to make Christmas cake with ingredients from lab supply companies
Added: 23 Dec 2019
So, it is the festive period once again and you are trapped in the lab – but fear not, Dr Matthew P…
Game Theory: Phylo
Added: 20 Dec 2019
Games have never been more popular and in their column Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner take us…
Time to be selective
Added: 15 Dec 2019
As the AMR crisis looms large, we would do well to look beyond classic drug targets says Dr Thomas …
The hidden power of mathematics
Added: 12 Dec 2019
As she gets set to tread the boards for the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Dr Hannah Fry tal…
New crop antibiotics – without damaging the environment
Added: 9 Dec 2019
UK scientists think they have a new way to protect crops from a widespread and devastating bacteria…
Bioimaging collaboration takes on viral disease
Added: 9 Dec 2019
A new institute collaboration will allow scientists to study viral diseases in greater detail.
Quantum physics AI speeds up drug discovery
Added: 9 Dec 2019
An international collaboration has seen a team using Artificial Intelligence normally used to predi…
Moving from push to pull
Added: 9 Dec 2019
Nothing less than an entirely new model of drug development is needed if we are to create new antib…
A very positive destruction
Added: 2 Dec 2019
Totally eradicating disease is a very rare thing indeed and requires, among other things, global co…
Just good sense
Added: 29 Nov 2019
Síle Lane is on a mission to challenge misrepresentation of science and evidence. She is leading t…
E.coli engineered to consume CO2
Added: 28 Nov 2019
Synthetic biologists have engineered an autotrophic form of bacteria.
